Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a spirit to an statement you wish to make.

If the design of the building be originally bad, the only virtue it can ever possess will be signs of antiquity.

Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are.

God intends no man to live in this world without working, but it seems to me no less evident that He intends every man to be happy in his work.

All traveling becomes dull in exact proportion to its rapidity.

In my house there is no attempt whatever to secure harmonies of colour, or form, or furniture.... I am entirely independent for daily happiness upon the sensual qualities of form or colour-when I want them I take them either from the sky or from the fields.

Repose demands for its expression the implied capability of its opposite,--energy.